From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...al for distinguishing between the oil and water by modifying the water phase in one of two ways: add gadolium nitrate to make the water more opaque to neutrons, or replace light water with heavy water to make the "water" more transparent to neutrons. Cady also is proposing to use neutron radiography to measur...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...undertaking," said Sansalone. He will also work on modifying the coating itself to increaseits trapping efficiency and lifetime. The goal is to have asystem which can last as long as the typical highway pavement about 15 years. Lab tests indicated Sansalone's coating couldlast approximately 40 years. The fiel..."Genetic Factors Influencing Cholesterol Response To Diet"
...efforts to reduce theincidence of heart disease by modifying fat intake may be much more effective inhigh risk pattern B individuals than in pattern A subjects who have a normalblood cholesterol profile. Because of the relatively low prevalence of pattern B in women,particularly before menopause, we h......fforts to reduce the incidence of heart disease by modifying fatintake may be much more effective in high-risk pattern B individuals than inpattern A subjects who have a normal blood cholesterol profile." Research findings showing that dietary fat-induced changes in LDL particlesize and density phenoty...Sensory experience is capable of modifying neuronal connectivities in the brain, either by enhancing or diminishing the flow of information. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tbingen, Germany) report in "Nature Neuroscience" (May ...New Retinal Surgery May Reverse Legal Blindness
... De Juan, who perfected the technique after modifying earlier, lesssuccessful surgical strategies, reports the results of the surgery in the firstthree patients in the May issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He hasnow performed the same procedure on a total of 40, about 20 percent of whom ha...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In Efficient Gene Delivery
... vivo gene delivery systems have focused onfurther modifying the virus, for example, by building into its envelope astructure that directs the virus to a specific cell type. But the tinkeringappears to interfere with the ability of the virus to enter the cells. "We wanted to find an approach where we ......ashington DC--It's often thought that humans began modifying our environmentover large regions relatively recently, aided and abetted by modern technology.Now, a report by researchers at the University of Berne as well as universitiesin Liverpool, Kiev, and Copenhagen, helps show that humans have beendramatica......eREM technology to develop methods for genetically modifying cytotoxic T cells(CTL) to enhance their function by providing key proteins that may be lacking incertain disease settings, such as AIDS. Additionally, REM expansion modifiedCTLs could be used to deliver cytokines to diseased target cells without the...Researchers Make Breakthrough In Gene Transfer
... genes. "A similar strategy might work for modifying other cytotoxic virusesthat are being used as gene vectors," says Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., professor ofmolecular microbiology and head of the research team. Postdoctoral fellow EugeneV. Agapov, M.D., Ph.D., and Ilya Frolov, Ph.D., research assistant p...Brookhaven, Carnegie Scientists Report First 'Morphing' Of Plant Enzyme Function
...ity of the desaturase and hydroxylase enzymes. By modifying the geneticblueprint for the enzymes, they swapped several amino acids from one enzyme fortheir equivalents in another enzyme. Then, they examined the consequences by implanting the genes in a plantknown as Arabidopsis, plant scientists' e...UC Scientists Search For Alternatives For Methyl Bromide
...ating whether oak root fungus can be managed by modifying irrigation practices. "We're trying to find a middle ground," said plant pathologist David Rizzo, who, with water relations scientist Ken Shackel, have set up an experimental pear orchard at the Armstrong Research Plots on the Davis campus. ...UCSF Researchers Pinpoint Molecule That Triggers Deadly Progress Of Pulmonary Fibrosis
...kind of chemical wedge,the researchers discovered, modifying the shape of the protein complex andexposing the TGF Beta site. TGF Beta can then bind with a specific receptor onthe surface of lung cells, beginning the buildup of fibrous tissue.The critical role of the integrin was confirmed in studies with mice ...Bees: Latest Weapon In Cancer Fight
...r cells. Scientists at CSIRO Molecular Science are modifying bee venom to develop cancertreatments that should have fewer side effects than other drugs used to fightthe disease. A research project to utilise an active ingredient from bee venom as a potentialcure for cancer has been funded by a $670,000 grant f...... have an inadequate response to one or moredisease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. The most frequently reported adverseevents in RA studies with ENBREL in adults were mild to moderate injection sitereactions. The long-term effects of ENBREL treatment on the development orcourse of serious infection, malignan...Yeast Provides Evidence For Continuous Membrane Theory
...apedmembranes called cisternae, is responsible for modifying and packaging proteinsfor export to the cell surface. According to the membrane outgrowth theory,Golgi cisternae are transient structures, with new cisternae constantly beinggenerated at tER sites. Glick realized he had a unique opportunit...Stanford Chemical Engineer Chaitan Khosla Receives Alan T. Waterman Award From NSF
...icrobialproduction of polyketides, and methods for modifying these genes, "has capturedthe attention of the entire pharmaceutical industry as an exciting new approachfor the production of new antimicrobial agents from engineered organisms," said1988 Waterman Award winner and University of California-Berkeley p...Bacteria That Gorge On Rotting Waste Can Break Down DDT
...ymposium in San Diegolast week. The company is now modifying the process so that it can break downother persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs and TNT (see report below). The new technique will remove contaminants at around half to two-thirdsof the price of incineration, the next best solution, sa......gen-based compounds react withcomponents of cells, modifying them and in some cases making them harmful to thecell. Such oxygen species -- peroxides, hydroxides and superoxides -- can beproduced both in chemical reactions in the cell and from reactions betweenoxygen and ultraviolet light, a component of sunl......stalling catalytic converters on the forklifts and modifying thebuilding's ventilation system to reduce exhaust concentrations. The Berkeley Lab team provided 60 workers who volunteered for the study with thenew occupational sensor, which was clipped to the workers' lapels. They werealso given commercially av...